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When Suzanne (Lilian Harvey) breaks a leg dancing, her rascally stage manager loses all interest in her welfare. A group of puppeteers take care of her and the scion (Gene Raymond) of the chief puppeteer falls in love with her. The rest of I Am Suzanne deals with Suzanne's uneasy feeling that Tony is really in love not with her but with a puppet portrait he has made of her. The mocking dances of his marionettes and her fiancé's dreamy affinity with them first confuse, then anger her. When her leg has mended enough...
...life & times of Edith Rockefeller McCormick are Chicago history. Most colorful of the Rockefeller children, her wedding to Harvester Scion Harold McCormick in 1895 was only surpassed in national interest by the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough the same year. In Chicago she succeeded Mrs. Potter Palmer as social arbiter, gave vast and lavish parties, backed the Chicago opera for years before Insull. She used to buy dresses six at a time, all the same model. She thought nothing of spending $25,000 for roses to bower her ballroom. Suffering from a nervous disorder...
...Nazi is closer to psychic, intuitive Chancellor Adolf Hitler than tall, brooding Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl whose eyebrows are two great black beetles. Often at night Ernst distracts Adolf, weary from cares of state, by playing soulfully on the piano. Ernst, scion of Munich's famed art-print publishing House of Hanfstaengl, is a Harvard man, once kept a smart Manhattan art shop. Because Hitler and Hanfstaengl are inseparable, constantly flying about the Fatherland together in the Chancellor's private plane, all Germany was flabbergasted last autumn when the Party's first super-film, Horst Wessel "with music...
Splendrous "Sun King" Louis XIV created the de la Trémoïlles hereditary princes and of these Prince Louis was the last. Gay and handsome, he had crossed the channel to hunt with Chicago Harvester Scion Leander James McCormick whose beauteous wife was the Comtesse de Fleurieu. Also at the McCormick's "Heronry" were Captain and Mrs. J. H. B. Rodney, he a younger brother of the 8th Baron Rodney, she of Seattle. In the middle of the night Jackson, the McCormicks' chauffeur, heard his master and mistress begin to shout "Fire!" In their night clothes...
Characters: Patriarch Jeeter Lester (Henry Hull), a bent, rickety, boastful, obscene, stealing, lying scion of an old family who has discovered that semi-starvation is the only penalty for doing nothing; his wife Ada (Margaret Wycherly), mother of 16 of whom 13 have forgotten her; her unmanageable harelipped daughter Ellie May, tortured with the abnormal appetites of the deformed; her golden-haired daughter Pearl who somehow manages to remain a wife in name only; Pearl's normal husband Lov who bought her for $7, loves her vainly, beats her moderately; Jeeter and Ada's remaining son Dude whose...